The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee launched a scathing attack on the Department of Justice today with a report outlining how Attorney General Eric Holder’s agency is “ignoring the Constitution to impose a partisan agenda.”

“The pattern of pushing partisan ideology rather than neutrally enforcing the law began nearly as soon as the Administration took office and has continued unabated since,” the report from Rep. Lamar Smith states.

The Texas Republican said that under the Obama administration, the Justice Department “has become more partisan than ever.”

Smith has called Holder to testify before the committee on June 7 to answer for that partisanship.

“The Obama administration has ignored the constitutional balance of power between co-equal branches of government and blocked investigations of its actions. When the Administration doesn’t like a law, they refuse to enforce it. And if the Senate’s constitutional authority to approve political appointees gets in their way, the Administration ignores the Constitution,” Smith said.

“All government officials are bound by the limits of the Constitution and the rule of law, including the President and the Attorney General,” the chairman added.

The report delves into several high-profile examples of the DoJ’s quest to “impose the Administration’s partisan agenda on the American people.”

The first of these: Operation Fast and Furious.

“Since the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) Operation Fast and Furious first became public in January, 2011, the Department has responded with a consistent focus on avoiding responsibility rather than addressing institutional flaws,” the report states.

Smith’s chairman’s report calls out Holder for his May 3, 2011, testimony before the committee in which he said that he “probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.”

Months before the hearing, though, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) had personally handed Holder a copy of his Jan. 27, 2011, letter regarding the matter, and documents later revealed by the DoJ that fall included memos to Holder with summaries of the gun-walking scandal.

Holder denied giving untruthful testimony, but under pressure from lawmakers eventually said he’d meant to say “a few months” before the committee.

The Department of Justice responded to a CBS News Freedom of Information Act request on Fast and Furious last week by sending mostly blank pages to the news network.

Smith’s report also faults the DoJ for “rushing to court to oppose state laws aimed at improving immigration enforcement while ignoring sanctuary cities and other policies which explicitly violate federal immigration law,” knocking its legal action against Arizona’s SB1070.

“Even if the Department’s argument were not entirely frivolous, it is a much weaker case than could be mounted against states like New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois that openly violate their duty to support federal immigration enforcement,” it says. “While Arizona’s law complements and strengthens federal immigration policy, the laws of these states and some of the cities within them explicitly violate the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996—yet DOJ refuses to take any action against them.”

Listing the tally, why would we exclude the Marc Rich pardon at the end of Clinton’s term? How does one pardon a tax evader and gun runner before he is convicted and while he is a fugitive? Let him cite equal protection all the way to his resignation under duress.

You are right Lucky Lazarus, they might just as well go for all the gold. Why not ask Eric Holder why he isn’t down in Phoenix, AZ and investigating Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his entire Cold Case Posse for attempting to unseat a sitting President and preventing him from running for a second term. This is treasonous by any lawful standard and it becomes our nation’s top security danger. Hell the Secret Service visited Ted Nugent for much, much less.

Could it be that Eric Holder knows that the Sheriff and his Posse have the goods on his man and their evidence would lead to his boss getting called on the carpet for treasonous activity? That would be my guess knowing Holder would take the Sheriff out if he though they were all lying. The Sheriff’s investigation has moved from “probable cause” to a “criminal” investigation. This is the story of the century and everyone is avoiding it. Are the all sick. Many of these conservatives bitch and moan about this President 24/7. They could take him out in a week for crying out loud.

The GOP is developing this nasally, grate-on-your nerves whine!!! They need to take action or shut up!
They are starting to annoy the general public, who are going to be annoyed enough real soon-with a billion dollars to spend on campaigning.

I believe he is the worst, the most partisan, the most prejudiced attorney general we have ever had. Thank goodness he will go out with obama in November.
Please, everyone, let’s get behind Romney and put this country back in the honorable column.

My understanding is that one cannot pardon unindicted offenses — which would argue that Holder should only be indicted for half of what he has done, in order to ensure he can do jail time for the other half once his chief leaves office..

Obama won’t be in office when Holder is indicted. I truly believe they thought he would be so they went ahead and did illegal things. They truly screwed the pouch this time, couldn’t happen to a better bunch. Can’t wait for the race riots when these scum get their due.

You left out the most important investigation of the century, the one going on in Phoenix, AZ. Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his investigative team has moved from a “probable cause” investigation to a “criminal” investigation for crying out loud. Eric Holder should be all over this sheriff and his investigators. They are attempting to unseat a sitting President, is that not treasonous activity? It doesn’t get much worse than this. Fast and Furious/Black Panters have nothing on this Sheriff in Arizona.

Could it be that Eric Holder knows these folks have the goods on his boss and doesn’t what to touch this with a ten foot pole? That would be my take on this knowing how much Eric Holder hates Arizona and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. This should be very upsetting to anyone following this investigation.

When are the Conservative and our new Presidential Candidate going to do about this usurpation of the office of the POTUS?

Let’s hope the Mitt campaign will not allow itself to be sidetracked by distractions such as the economy, energy, employment, national security, etc… while the planet has got a fever, and the Delta Smelt is going to get fried (delicious, by the way).

Didn’t President Obama recently scold SCOTUS for even considering overturning a law passed by a “strong majority” (ha ha) of duly elected representatives implying that its constitutionality was beside the point? Wasn’t DOMA passed overwhelmingly by both houses of Congress and signed into law by a Democratic president? As is usual with liberals, this administration’s principles, ethics and morals are situational and relative to the needs of the moment.

Holder thinks the American people are cowards for not talking about race. He is lying, perjuring coward for not telling the truth about his own partisan motives for breaching his oath to uphold the US Constitution, including those parts the socialists he supports would rather not pay attention to. There is only one word for Holder and that is dishonorable to the very essence of his being, every pore, every hair follicle, every synapse and every cell. Dishonorable to the core and incapable of testifying truthfully to anyone. How can such scum be regarded as a lawyer? He obviously lied when he took his oath of office.

Wouldn’t it be a hoot for Holder to walk to the table in front of the Judiciary Committee and, instead of sitting down, spread his arms expansively and intone in his best immitation of a Sunday Morning Voice: “Open up your hearts and minds to the ideas of Professor Derrick Bell.”

A bigger hoot would be being a fly on the wall in the Oval Office at that moment, at Barack stares at the CSPAN broadcast.

“The Obama administration has ignored the constitutional balance of power between co-equal branches of government and blocked investigations of its actions. When the Administration doesn’t like a law, they refuse to enforce it. And if the Senate’s constitutional authority to approve political appointees gets in their way, the Administration ignores the Constitution,” Smith said.

This is news? It’s a pity the mainstream media doesn’t see it this way. If this was a Republican administration doing this, you would see reports every day on the nightly news calling for the president’s impeachment. The mainstream media would be screaming that this was Nixon all over again and would be demanding that at the very least the Attorney General be removed. And what do you hear from the mainstream media now? Nothing but crickets chirping. This is why many people today have no trust in the mainstream media. And this is why it is doomed to failure in the very near future.

Though he’s not very bright, in Eric Holder’s case, it feels more like willful disregard for the Constitution than ignorance.

As is true for the entire Obama coterie and hangers on.

Example, Ruth Bader Ginsburg advising any country looking to write a new Copnstitution to not look to our antiquated old thing, that old parchment that doesn’t guarantee free lunches (of any kind imaginable) to each and every citizen.

Yes, I agree.
They, Obama and ilk, hate the Constitution. And they probably hate it in large part because it was written by European Christian patriarchs. That’s an irrational reason, but they, Obama and ilk, are not rational people, devious and cunning yes, but not rational.

I don’t care what you say about Eric Holder. He must be a nice man. Just look at all the people who like him, such as:
the National Black Panther Party, Black Muslims, White Muslims, illegal aliens, foreign nacro gangs, enemies of the USA like the Gitmo detainees…. I can’t think of any others; but, I’m sure that all of you will help me.

The porn-stash leader of the DOJ is the best example of a petulant, smart-assed teenager I have ever seen. The kid who is very intelligent, but not as intelligent as he thinks.

His mastery of lying, deflection, and grabbing s*** out of thin air is exemplary and would be of great use in a p*ssing contest but not much else.

He has a warped logic to things but of the gravest import is the impeachment process. In order for impeachment to commence, a person in one of the three branches of government has to complain. That is, formally file a protest to his actions and that of his department. Naturally, this will be met with cries of racism and bigotry which are the fall-back as well as the primary defense weapons used by these types of people.

“Whenever they bitch about you breaking the law, just cry racism, that will shame them and shut them up. Then go about breaking the law as you had planned. Better still, do it WHILE they complain while calling them racists. Nothing works better than stirring up that pot and having them defend themselves while you do your thing, man.”

Problem is, for them, most of us are really sick of that “argument” and have ways to make it stick. It’s quite simple really and possibly one of the reasons Gingrich was left behind by the republican establishment that thinks the duty of all white people is to kiss the asses of blacks.

But Newt spelled it out plainly, simply and directly. By citing the facts in any given situation, race never comes up unless the defender brings it up and when they do, the prosecution just doesn’t respond to it but hammers the defense with another fact.

Naturally, this frustrates the defense. “Why aren’t they going along with the racist theme? They are supposed to defend themselves here and I get to wiggle free while they go all apoplectic trying to out-do each other in apologizing for being racists.” I have seen it in court for real. A good prosecutor will not get side-tracked with such BS but stick to the issue(s) at hand.

If The esteemed representative from Texas does this, so much the good. If the conservatives could find a black representative to put Holder’s feet to the fire, so much the better. (Pipe-dream)

But still, truth must win the day. Remember, OJ eventually ended up in Prison. Not because he was black but because he’s a sick, deranged man who thought he was above the law. Holder isn’t much different. OJ got acquitted for murder by playing the race card. There will be no such “until now undisclosed tapes” of anyone saying “ni**er this and that”.

So the racist defense won’t wash. They will then be forced to defend their position on all of the subjects Bridget has outlined above. What will follow will be something similar to that idiot trying to explain to the supreme court what Obamacare is good for and what’s wrong with Arizona’s immigration laws.

(Picture Ralph Kramden going “homina-homina-homina”)

But, with a formal complaint against Holder, the door is now open for impeachment….though it will still take a great amount of support from both parties. That’s the real sticky-wicket.

holder is like the rest of those liberal democrats and occupy also unions their all not scared of work they’ll lay down right beside it and go to sleep , their not it , just don’t like doing any of it , they are all owned by obama and what obama says that’s what goes , they are a bunch of followers and can’t think for them selves , all need to go their not doing the jobs we the people hired them to do , and obama for not doing the job we hired him to do , he needs to be impeached now not later

Blah, blah, blah. So what will be the end result of all these hearings? Holder will deny everything and the committee will do absolutely NOTHING.

How many times has the Obama administration thumbed its collective nose at the Constitution and the laws of the land and then gone ahead with its agenda? I admire Smith, Grassley and Issa for raising the issues and examining the corruption but then what?

What happens when those that are supposed to enforce the laws decide not to? Or even worse, decide to break them? How many members of congress have been arrested and sent to prison for insider trading? How many have been jailed for election fraud? Why are Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Franklin Raines and Maxine Watters still walking around free?

Why do I get the feeling the whole bunch goes out for drinks together after the hearings?

The Problem is The Republican Leadership, repeat, The Problem is The Republican Leadership, repeat. A ‘scathing report’ is just so much hot air. When action occurs, wake me. This is the partisan game at work: you give me hell, I’ll give you hell and then let’s go carve the pig….this is one fat fascist government and needs to be thrown in the street and one term limits begun. Get that done in the next few years, and then their game is over.

Obozo, Moochelle, and Eric Holder, I have never been more ashamed of my country, and with the ignorance of those that voted for these people, and for the black population that were so enamored of a White black boy being elected that they failed to see the harm that would be done to them, while they celebrate something that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would never have condoned.

It is not the color of their skin but the content of their heart.

And as long as we have race hustlers we will never get past the racial issue.

so failing schools, being supported with your money dooming your children to a second class life and you are happy with this White black boy, that sends his kids to private schools and prevents you from school choice.

What more do you need to know to not vote for this man, if you love your children and want the best for them.

Exploding the budget and leaving the debt to your children and grandchildren, What more do you need to know to not vote for this man, than to realize that all that you have worked for at your death may be confiscated to pay the bills he incurred, while calling the formed president unpatriotic for running up the debt.

Judge arrow, my feelings even to the choice of words. I don’t know what’s stopping the Rs from bringing suit against Holder for their alleged grievances. Haranguing from a committee chair isn’t the designed check against executive error. The courts do that job. For instance, who decides when the senate is in recess? Also, read the text of the recess appointment. “The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies THAT MAY HAPPEN DURING the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.” The vacancy must occur during the recess. The recess is not a time when any previous vacancy can be filled. Can’t they read?

Unfortunately, I fear this proceeding will amount to little more than tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, – “Like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury yet signifying nothing.”- I pray I’m wrong and perhaps this inquiry might just gain some traction in the (LOL) media nonetheless. Wouldn’t that be nice.

Did Boehner finally get out of the way of the contempt citation for Holder? Maybe he finally understood it’s in his best interest. Issa first threatened Holder with contempt of Congress months ago but rumor had it the leadership, which means Boehner, wouldn’t go along. Do Issa and Smith and Grassley have more to come? I hope we’ll find out.

Guys, guys: ‘ignoring the Constitution!’; ‘not following the Constitution!’, etc, etc. C’mon, you can’t blame the pols for ignoring the Constitution when 99% of the Sovereign of this nation, We the People, are in gross willfully ignorant treasonous denial of the document. Good grief, you’ve got 5 out of 4 SCOTUS justices who claim that the Constitution forces every state to allow any mother to have her unborn baby killed at will, 1 of 2 major political parties who are cool with that, the other party who wishes the topic would go away, and practically no one cares. 95% of the Fed bureaucrazies are grossly unConstitutional, and no one cares. What more do you need to know? We are a wicked people, and we get the gov’t that we deserve.

We have never had a president who openly expressed contempt for the Constitution. All previous presidents have followed the Supreme Law of the Land; FDR even backed off some policies when the Federal courts ruled against them. The president and attorney general are both lawyers and should understand the oaths they took to uphold the Constitution.
What do we do when they refuse to do so? Impeachment?
May the God Who has been so Beneficial to our nation prevent Obma’s re-election!
May the American people have the wisdom and will to see Obama and Holder for what they are.

re 33., do you believe that? The departments of Education, Energy, Transportation and much of the burocracy E.g. the EPA stand in open, brazen violation of the US Constitution. Nobody in Washington follows their oath at all, nor have they for a long time. We have a counterfeit government, with sham elections and parties. It’s a big lie. Welcome to the Soviet Union.